Evaluation of the Inhibitory Effects of Coumermycin A1
on the Growth of Theileria
and Babesia Parasites
in vitro and in vivo
Mahmoud AbouLaila1, 2, Amer Ragheb
AbdEl-Aziz 3, Soad Menshawy2, Naoaki Yokoyama1,Ikuo
Igarashi1, Mohammad Al-Wabel4 and Mosaab Omar4,5*
1National
Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of
Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Inada-Cho, Obihiro, Hokkaido
080-8555, Japan; 2Department of Parasitology, Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22511, Elbehera,
Egypt; 3Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt; 4Department of
Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine,
Qassim University, Buraydah, 51452 Qassim, Saudi Arabia; 5Department
of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley
University, Qena 83523, Qena, Egypt
*Corresponding author:
mousaab.omr@vet.svu.edu.eg
Abstract
Coumermycin A1, a coumarin antibiotic, has
anticancer, antibacterial, antiviral, and antimalarial activities. We aimed to
evaluate the anti-thielerial and anti-babesial activity of coumermycin A1 in
mice in vivo. Coumermycin A1 efficacy was determined by the transcription
of DNA gyrase, a type II DNA topoisomerase using reverse
transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) transcription. Coumermycin A1
significantly inhibited the development of preliminary parasitemia (1%).
Theileria equi and the Babesia species B. bigemina, B.
bovis, and B. caballi were observed with IC50 values of
80, 70, 57, and 65 nM, respectively. Their development was remarkably inhibited
at observed concentrations of 10, 25, 50, and 100µM for the studied organisms
T. equi, and the Babesia species B. caballi, B. bovis
and B. bigemina, respectively. In the subsequent viability test, parasite
re-growth was suppressed at 100µM for B. bigemina and B. bovis and
at 50 µM for B. caballi and T. equi. Coumermycin A1 Treatment of
B. bovis cultures with Coumermycin A1 completely suppressed the
transcription of the DNA gyrase subunits B and A genes. In BALB/c mice, the
development of Babesia microti was inhibited by 70.73% using 5 mg/kg of
Coumermycin A1.
To Cite This Article:
AbouLaila M, AbdEl-Aziz AR, Menshawy S, Yokoyama
N, Igarashi I, Al-Wabel M and Omar M, 2021.
Evaluation of the inhibitory effects of coumermycin A1 on the growth of
Theileria and
Babesia parasites in vitro
and in vivo. Pak Vet J, 41(4):
469-474.
http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2021.064